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	<title>The Pythian Blog &#187; André Araujo</title>
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		<title>Viewing RMAN jobs status and output</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 05:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was discussing with a fellow DBA about ways to check the status of existing and/or past RMAN jobs. Good backup scripts usually write their output to some sort of log file so, checking the output is usually a straight-forward task. However, backup jobs can be scheduled in many different ways (crontab, Grid Control, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pythian has 42 new ACEs up its sleeve</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 13:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Friday, at noon, Paul Vallee and Andrew Waitman, Pythian&#8217;s owner and CEO, respectively, have an exclusive lunch with Larry Ellison at the Oracle head-quarters in San Francisco, CA. As you have already guessed, Mr. Ellison has personally invited Paul and Andrew as a recognition to an unparalleled heroic efforts by Pythian to motivate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCOUG (My)SQL Challenge entry #2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago I learned about this year&#8217;s NoCOUG SQL Challenge and decided to to put the gray matter between my ears to work. I&#8217;ve been teaching a MySQL course this week and my first impulse was to use my MySQL VM to test my solution attempts. However, I eventually decided to use Recursive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCOUG SQL Challenge entry</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the great Wizards of Northern California have reached out to the community, pleading for help in the deciphering of one more challenging riddle. The second edition of the NoCOUG SQL Challenge has been published and is open for submissions! This time Iggy and his ensemble came up not only with a SQL challenge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions you always wanted to ask about Flashback Database&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday in the Sydney Oracle Meetup I talked about Oracle Flashback technology and how it helps to reduce downtime. The session generated great interest among the attendees, which led to interesting discussions and many questions about the subject. Some of the questions couldn&#8217;t be answered during the meeting so I&#8217;ve followed up on them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Andr&#233; Araujo at AUSOUG National Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s only one week to go now and the program for the AUSOUG National Conference Series 2009 is out. I&#8217;ll be presenting on the first day in Perth (Nov 10th) about Oracle Flashback technology. I&#8217;m looking forward to attending the conference in Perth, not only because I&#8217;ll be presenting there but also because it&#8217;s my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free and Easy Schema diff for Oracle</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:55:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post originated from a quick discussion we had internally on how to quickly and easily compare schemas between two Oracle databases. I learned about Sheeri Cabral&#8217;s post with a quick comparison solution for MySQL databases and I though of using a similar approach for Oracle. I did some testing and it worked quite well. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easier SQL Server Database Restores</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1515/easier-sql-server-database-restores/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 06:35:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been asked to restore a database and wondered which backup files were available? And if many were available, which ones you should use, and in which order? Getting familiar with the msdb schema, especially the backupset and backupmediafamily tables, helps to answer that question since all the backup history is stored in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NoCoug SQL Challenge Entry</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/2385/nocoug-sql-challenge-entry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 18:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love puzzles. So when I heard about the NoCoug SQL Challenge I felt tempted to give it a go. The Northern California Oracle Users Group (NoCoug) has challenged us to find a good way to calculate the probability of getting different sums for x throws of a n-sided die using only SQL. The probabilities [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RML Utilities: An Internal MS Jewel for Performance Analysis</title>
		<link>http://www.pythian.com/news/1512/rml-utilities-an-internal-ms-jewel-for-performance-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>André Araujo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early in 2008 I came across a toolkit that Microsoft had released a couple of months before, called RML Utilities. I downloaded RML Utilities from the Microsoft website, started playing with it, and found it quite interesting. Then I tried to find more information about it, blog posts, stories of people using it, only to [...]]]></description>
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